Vice President of Infrastructure Operations, Overleaf
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Terraform
RDS
Expert level
Remote from Germany, Spain, UK
Online LaTeX editor
Job no longer available
Online LaTeX editor
21-100 employees
B2CInternal toolsPublishingSaaSMedia
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Terraform
RDS
Expert level
Remote from Germany, Spain, UK
21-100 employees
B2CInternal toolsPublishingSaaSMedia
Company mission
To help make science and research faster, more open and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- You’re experienced in the senior leadership of IT infrastructure with a focus on cloud services
- You are highly experienced managing multiple cloud operations teams spanning different technologies, geographies and requirements
- You are a keen “horizon scanner”, maintaining industry knowledge, techniques, and potential tooling to cement your position in the field
- You have expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, etc.) and GCP services (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, etc.)
- You have a demonstrable leadership proficiency in DevOps tools and practices including CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform)
- You have a strong understanding and history of excelling in Monitoring, Logging and Alerting processes and tooling
- You’re highly organised and have the ability to work on intricate details without losing the big picture
- You’ll be a strong communicator and comfortable communicating with people at all organisational levels and leading conversations around recommendations for improvements
- You have a collaborative approach to how you work and ensure all groups are communicated with and understand your process and approach
- You’re a self learner and have an inquisitive mind
- You’re resourceful and solutions focussed, making practical considerations for all groups involved
- You’re a natural problem solver and have strong analytical skills
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field, and/or equivalent preferred qualifications (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect)
What the job involves
- As our VP of Infrastructure Operations, you will be part of our Central Technology team, overseeing the strategy, design and management of our (predominantly) cloud infrastructure which centres on AWS and GCP
- This role is critical in the delivery of Production services spanning a range of products and enables the business through driving innovation, scalability and operational excellence across our cloud based services and ensures that the infrastructure supports business growth and security/compliance requirements
- You will lead cross-functional teams, manage vendor relationships and ensure the reliability, performance, availability and efficiency of cloud services in a fast-paced, high growth environment
- Cloud Infrastructure Leadership - Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of the company’s cloud infrastructure, focussing primarily on AWS and GCP to meet current and future business requirements
- Strategy Development - Define and execute a cloud strategy that supports scalability, cost efficiency and business continuity while aligning supporting capabilities (monitoring, alerting, tooling), company objectives and Technology/Product roadmaps
- Work with Senior Leadership and key stakeholders to align the infrastructure strategy with the overall business objectives and develop a strategic roadmap ensuring that Infrastructure Operations supports business goals
- Leadership - Lead and mentor teams of DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineers with a focus on continuous professional development and high performance
- Operational Excellence - Gather and document operational requirements centred around contractual compliance, business needs and industry best practice
- Utilise these requirements to design appropriate monitoring, alerting and incident response practices
- Identify and implement automation candidates to further maximise the efficiency of the teams
- Ensure 24/7/365 operational stability and performance of infrastructure, meeting or exceeding business requirements
- Oversee capacity planning, change management and performance tuning to optimise performance while ensuring scalability, high availability and preparation for disaster recovery across all infrastructure aspects
- Security and Compliance - Collaborate closely with the security team to ensure that infrastructure adheres to and aligns with required frameworks, policies, procedures and evidence gathering requirements (spanning ISO 27001, ISO 27701, Cyber Essentials, FedRAMP Moderate and DoD IL-4)
- Oversee the successful operation of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans in collaboration with the Security team and ensure these are regularly tested and continuously improved
- Collaboration - Partner with the Development, Product, Security and Business teams to ensure the business requirements are understood, met and reported on to ensure the smooth delivery of infrastructure services across the organisation
- Vendor Management - Manage key vendor relationships with cloud service providers and other 3rd party vendors
- Horizon scan for new products and features which can be leveraged to improve the return on infrastructure investment
- Budget Management - Contribute to the development, management and reporting of the infrastructure operations budget, forecasting needs according to business requirements
Our take
Dubbed the Google Docs for science, Overleaf enables modern collaborative authoring tools for academics. Its primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports, and so on, written in the LaTeX markup language.
Despite being founded in 2012, it has experienced its largest phase of growth only relatively recently. This is partially due to an increased need for collaborative tools among scientists who are working in globally distributed teams, but also because of Overleaf's growing reputation as a sophisticated platform for academics. It passed the 10 million user mark in 2021 and has continued to grow steadily in popularity.
The company, in its own words, has entered a new era, and describes its goal as becoming the first port of call for scientific writing for researchers, students and enterprises alike. With a product under constant development and a large and enthusiastic community of users, it is well poised to achieve its aim.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Remote and flexible working
- You would join a small, dedicated and growing team
- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source
- We're backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we're part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech
- Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there's lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work
- You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we'll provide what you need
- We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
- We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
John Lees-Miller
(CTO)Previously served as a Systems Engineer for Advanced Transport Systems - Ultra PRT, Network and Website Supervisor for Lister Hall Student Association, and as CTO for A Virtual View.
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